We are the David Wilson Library Research Services Team. Helping researchers with everything from literature searching to open research to publication impact. Blogging items of interest to PGRs, ECRs and researchers.

Our third Elevenses session introduced the principles of research data management and focused on managing and securing your valuable data. If you struggle to remember where you stored your files or end up with multiple versions of documents, then this might be the session for you!

There has recently been an increase in research students falling prey to dodgy open access journals and being asked to pay large sums of money. Such journals can be very predatory and many are simply money-making scams. An American librarian has compiled a list of questionable open access journals which are best avoided.